I know some brides get all crazy gung ho before their wedding and start dieting and exercising 94 hours a day. Prefer something a little less extreme? Meet my new best friends.

Since walking's one of the few exercises I can do these days, I've been hitting the treadmill pretty hard. (Okay, semi-hard. I've been busy!) And since my feet are itty-bitty—a size 5 or 5 1/2—finding walking shoes, especially cute ones, was never easy. Until I found these.

Pretend you can hear the sounds of angels singing here.

Look, I've always been a sucker for good advertising—and those Reebok EasyTone ads are everywhere, right?—but this time I'm happy to report the product lives up to the ad campaign hype. I mean, I'm not walking my dog in short-short-short shorts just yet. But the burn I feel in my butt the day after walking a few miles in these shoes is unmistakable. I do most of my walking in the gym—I like temperature control ... and watching Friends re-runs while I exercise—but you could throw on these bad boys before a Saturday afternoon of running errands on foot and call it a workout.

Yes, they're more expensive than your average walking sneaker. But,

a) You all know how to find online coupon codes, right? (I got 20 percent off mine, I think.) And